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	Barbara Pym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (June 2, 1913 - January 11, 1980) was an English novelist.
		The turning point for Pym came with a famous article in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent names, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century.
		Pym worked at the African Institute in London for some years, and played a large part in the editing of its scholarly journal, Africa, hence the frequency with which anthropologists crop up in her novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Pym (313 words)

	Monroe
		Barbara Pym used the literary wedding--or a wedding that looks likely to occur in the unrealized future after the novel ended, or the restoration of a marriage that seems for most of the novel in a state of irreversible disrepair--as an imperfect pattern, an old form trimmed and stretched to contain new facts.
		Barbara Pym was unpublished from 1961 to 1977 which suggests that her subject--rituals signifying partial allegiances to many groups as opposed to total allegiance to one--was unfashionable if not incomprehensible to people publishing books and readers who might have bought them had they been available.
		Barbara Pym is closer to being a graffiti artist, though the idea she has anything in common with Thomas Pynchon is startling.
	w3.fiu.edu /gulfstrm/Monroe.htm (8250 words)

	Barbara Pym Biography
		She was born to Frederic and Irena Pym on June 2, 1913, in the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, on the Welsh border.
		Barbara's sister Hilary was born there in 1916.
		Misfortune of another kind struck Barbara in 1971--she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy; in 1974 she suffered a minor stroke.
	www.barbara-pym.org /bio.html (1140 words)

	Papers on Language and Literature: "enviable detachment" of the anthropologist: Barbara Pym's anthropological ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Pym's position at Africa was hardly a nine-to-five job, and between the writing of the anthropologists and her own, she lived what she called a "divided life" (Private 271).
		Pym herself seems less a participant in the activities than an observer, and one might suggest she had reached a state of "enviable detachment" that allowed her to observe so precisely the human comedy unfolding before her.
		Pym makes fun of the anthropologists, the argument goes, because they remain for her "irritating writers," a convenient focus for her frustration that she could not subsist solely on the income from her own writing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3708/is_200301/ai_n9218650 (1380 words)

	Barbara Pym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Pym went unpublished during the remainder of the 1960s and early 1970s but was rediscovered in 1977.
		.is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement.
		Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/pym_barbara.htm (389 words)

	Barbara Pym Society
		Barbara Pym entered St. Hilda’s College as an undergraduate in 1931 and took her B.A. degree in English Language and Literature in 1934.
		Membership in the Barbara Pym Society is open to all interested individuals; corporate membership is available for educational institutions, libraries etc.
		To encourage and support publications and theses on Barbara Pym, her life and work.
	www.spore.it /pym/society.htm (322 words)

	Pym, Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, the 2nd of June 1913, from Frederic Crampton Pym, solicitor, and Irena Spenser Thomas.
		In 1974, Barbara Pym retired from the Institute relocating with her sister Hilary (and a cat named Minerva) in Finstock, Oxfordshire.
		Barbara Pym is the only one to be mentioned twice, by poet Philip Larkin and by Lord David Cecil.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/pymbarbara/1.html (257 words)

	Encyclopedia: Barbara Pym
		Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.
		No Fond Return Of Love is a novel in which the author Barbara Pym makes an appearance in the manner of Alfred Hitchcock.
		Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Barbara-Pym (880 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Sweet Dove Died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Novelist Barbara Pym's deft touch with the nuances of personality and social class in England in the 1970's is enhanced by Sheila Hancock's skillful reading.
		Over Barbara Pym's 30-year writing career her primary subject was the intricate rituals of English life, which she observed with a sharp but understanding eye.
		Pym's novels are what used to be called "comedies of manners." Her work is immediately engaging, always amusing, and quite pointed in its depiction of a woman so consumed with the appearence of perfection that she misses every opportunity for happiness.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559213019?v=glance (1578 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pym Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Pym, Barbara (1913-1980), British author of satiric comedies.
		Often compared to Jane Austen, Pym is a realistic miniaturist, depicting a world...
		McClintock, Barbara (1902-1992), American geneticist and Nobel laureate, most noted for her discovery that genes can change their positions on...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Pym_Barbara.html (95 words)

	Barbara Pym, Moyer Bell, Fiction, British Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		BARBARA PYM was born in England in 1913.
		In 1977 Pym was the only author to be named twice in a Times Literary Supplement list of “the most underrated novelists of the century.” Within two weeks, she was established as a major novelist.
		Published in the last year of Barbara Pym's life, A Few Green Leaves combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works.
	www.moyerbellbooks.com /pym.html (618 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: Pym, Barbara
		Pym, Barbara: Dutton The jacket and the hard cover has very light wear but does have some soiling to the spine...The outside of the pages has foxing.............Heavy book........
		Pym, Barbara: Macmillan UK, London, 1982, FIRST EDITION, precedes the E.P. Dutton First American Edition, Foreword by Philip Larkin, this book was completed in 1963 but remained unpublished until after the author's 1980 death, 8/10 in 8/10 price-clipped dust-wrapper, very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a nice clean copy.
		Pym, Barbara: Macmillan UK, London, 1977, FIRST EDITION, precedes the 1978 E.P. Dutton First American Edition, 8/10 in 8/10 price-clipped dust-wrapper, very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a nice clean copy, oddly scarce in the true First Edition.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,Pym_Barbara,jump,80.html (574 words)

	Barbara Pym (1913-1980)
		Barbara was brought up in a family where the Church played a major part; her mother was assistant organist at the parish church of St. Oswald, her father sang in the choir and there was a longstanding family tradition of having curates home for supper on a Sunday.
		Barbara's first real creative work (she had been encouraged to write by her mother) was an operetta called The magic diamond performed by family and friends at Morda Lodge in April 1922.
		The Barbara Pym Society was founded in 1994 following a literary weekend, exploring the work of the author, held the previous year at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /pym.htm (591 words)

	Search Results for Pym - Encyclopædia Britannica
		English novelist, a recorder of post-World War II upper middle-class life, whose elegant and satiric comedies of manners are marked by poignant observation and psychological insight.
		Pym was a sonorously eloquent speaker, arguing each particular issue from first principles without ever being doctrinaire.
		Pym was the eldest son of Alexander Pym of Brymore, Somerset, who died when John was a child; his mother married Sir Anthony Rous, a client of the Russells, the earls of Bedford.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Pym&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (405 words)

	Jane and Prudence
		Pym likes to depict characters who study anthropology and it's fitting that her people in this story are quite a tribal study in themselves.
		Barbara Pym novels are consistently delightful, and if you enjoy Jane Austen novels, then chances are that you will like Barbara Pym--displacedhuman
		What a joy it is to sink into a Barbara Pym novel, especially this one, which is one of my favorites.
	www.fullcreditrepair.info /ebooks/isbn1559212268.html (701 words)

	A Few Green Leaves (Barbara Pym) - book review
		No one is murdered, there is no more than a hint at romance, and the biggest drama comes when the elderly woman who used to tutor the children in the manor comes visiting from London and is briefly lost in the woods.
		Pym's model is obviously Jane Austen ("3 or 4 Families in a Country village is the very thing to work on") and like her she fits a surprising amount into a limited canvas.
		But the world Pym describes is, unlike Austen's, fragile and in flux: the manor is no longer occupied, new bungalows have been built, and the outside world unavoidably intrudes.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Few_Green_Leaves.html (198 words)

	Classic Cafes \| Rendez-Vous Maddox St Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		To scholars and critics, her six early novels form the Barbara Pym canon, a body of work that establishes her unique style and presages her lasting importance.
		In the January 21 1977 issue of the Times Literary Supplement, Barbara Pym was named (by Philip Larkin) as "the most underrated novelist of the century." With astonishing speed she emerged from her wilderness to almost instant fame and recognition.
		Only two years after her rediscovery Barbara Pym died of cancer in a hospice in Oxford on January 11 1980.
	www.classiccafes.co.uk /r_vousspecial.htm (1276 words)

	John Pym
		Pym was the unquestioned leader of the House of Commons in the events leading up to the
		Resuming the attack in the Long Parliament (1640), he initiated the prosecution of Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, and of Archbishop Laud; urged the abolition of the courts of high commission and the Star Chamber; proposed the abolition of episcopacy; and played a major role in drafting the Grand Remonstrance (1641).
		Pym was one of the five members of Commons whom Charles tried to remove (1642) by military arrest.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0840618.html (448 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Less Than Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Barbara Pym's novel "Less Than Angels" centres on a small group of anthropologists in London.
		Many of Pym's novels centre on country clergymen, their ever-loyal, largely unfulfilled wives, and various church groupies who love to coddle the vicar ("An Unsuitable Attachment", "Some Tame Gazelle", "Jane and Prudence").
		Pym treats her characters with a gentle humor, making even their foibles seem genuinely endearing.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060805641 (619 words)

	Pym, Barbara on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The "enviable detachment" of the anthropologist: Barbara Pym's anthropological aesthetic.(Critical Essay)
		Beyond the Gothic Sublime: Poe's Pym or the Journey of Equivocal (E)motions(*).(Critical Essay)
		BARBARA HODGSON STIRS THE WANDERLUST IN ALL OF US.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PymB1arbar.asp (320 words)

	Weekly Reader: An Early Work by Barbara Pym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Barbara Mary Crampton Pym began this novel in 1939, but put it aside during the war.
		Because of her masterful psychological insight into her characters and her careful observations of social behavior Pym is most often compared to Jane Austen.
		Like Jane Austen’s works, Barbara Pym’s novels are worth revisiting time and time again.
	weeklyreader.blogspot.com /2005/06/early-work-by-barbara-pym.html (349 words)

	Barbara Pym - The Sugar Quill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I always liked this author, Barbara Pym, but I do not have all her books.
		Oooo! I LOVE Barbara Pym! I've read nearly all of her books, but my favourites are Crampton Hodnet (hysterical story about Oxford undergrads), Less Than Angels and if I recall correctly An Unsuitable Attachment.
		Barbara Pym's just delightful: the somewhat startling observations about other people, the understated humor.
	www.sugarquill.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=1871 (553 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: "Always sincere, not always serious": Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym had a mentor-mentee relationship which eventually turned into friendship.
		Their friendship developed while Pym was writing 'Some Tame Gazelle' and Liddell was acting as her critic.
		However, Liddell's hostile behavior towards Pym became evident when after Pym's death, publishers continued to produce and sell copies of her works.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18412903&refid=holomed_1 (195 words)

	Excellent Women - Barbara Pym - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Barbara Pym is the author of ""Some Tame Gazelle"", ""Jane and Prudence"" and ""Less than Angels""...
		Excellent Women - Barbara Pym : Women in the early 50s.
		Barbara Pym, who wrote Excellent Women,was born at the beginning of the last century,1913 to be exact.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/excellent-women-barbara-pym (222 words)

	Textbook raises social issue questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In addition, the professor has co-authored an essay, " ’All this Reading’: The Importance of Literature in the Novels of Barbara Pym," soon to be published in a collection of essays about novelist Barbara Pym.
		"Reading Barbara Pym" is co-authored by Frauke Lenckos, who recently completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan, and Ellen Miller, director of publications at Harvard Law School.
		Ackley’s contribution to the book was among essays presented at the second annual meeting of the Barbara Pym Society of North America at Harvard University.
	www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/kyAckley.htm (486 words)

	Books and Magazines
		It is not surprising, therefore, that the theme of Pym and the Church has run through the Barbara Pym Society's conferences in one form and another since the Society's founding 10 years ago.
		Perhaps this is because Barbara Pym is a modern author so we know of the events outside the books and the lives that were led there and thus the interest is within the books themselves, and the themes are constant, spinsterhood, age, and the clergy.
		However, in the second part of the book, Barbara Pym springs to life and her books become much more appealing and one is inspired to read them forthwith.
	www.sndc.demon.co.uk /books.htm (4091 words)

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